Bringing together major paintings and drawings by a paramount artist of the 20th century and one of the greatest artists of the 17th, “Picasso-El Greco” at the Kunstmuseum Basel invites viewers to ...

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A modest panel that spent decades in the Pope's residence has become the Vatican's latest art-historical surprise. The Vatican has announced that“The Redeemer” (ca. 1590–95), a small oil on wood in ...

Police in Spain have intercepted three forged paintings attributed to El Greco, Francisco de Goya, and Amedeo Modigliani. The counterfeit canvases came from a non-specialist collector based in the ...

Recently I was in New York, and the party I was with had the privilege of a special visit to the Frick Collection, in many ways the grandest of all New York museums (see Former Frick Director Speaks ...

Among the Old Masters of European painting whose works are deeply revered today, none has commanded a more enthusiastic response Among the Old Masters of European painting whose works are deeply ...

El Greco, “The Apostle Luke Painting the Virgin Hodegetria (c.1564), egg tempera on panel, 41 x 33 cm; Benaki Museum, Athens; © Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; gift ...

The conventual church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, Spain, played a crucial role in the life and work of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco. It was there that the painter ...

“The most modern of Old Masters” declares a text panel at the beginning of this fall’s stunning El Greco retrospective at the Metropolitan. Hyperbole, maybe, but it’s easy to agree when we become ...